The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-21
ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July ID, 1857

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Mr.. EDITOR: In looking through the
daily papers this morning we see an ac-
count of the burning of the warehouse
and cotton which occurred at Pelzer-yes
terday. How quickly news is sent on
the wires in this nineteenth century.
"Like as the waves make toward the
pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten
to their end"
Notwithstanding we are in the hurly
burly Of city life, and look from early
morn till dewy eve on the many new
and attractive sights, our minds are
prone to wander back home and dwell
on the Reunion Of our Collegiates" at
Williamson, and more especially re-
union of our own family. Eight out of
the scattered ten are back at our old
home, talking, weeping and laughing
that familiar sound laughing, coming
from merry hearts, methinks I hear this
morning. IT'S the mind that makes the
body rich, and our Heavenly Father,
who lends us life, lends us heart re-
plete with thankfulness. God bless our
old State, and especially the little town
of Williamson, where love and meek
ness become a church man better than
ambition-where they win straying souls
with modesty and cast none away, know.
ing as they do that there is special
Providence in the fall of sparrow. We
find in this land of strangers some of
that aceakaess in church members of diff
ferent denominations, and even members
of the same faith, allowing envy and
jealousy to creep into their hearts, one
against the other, "having the form of
godliness, but denying the power there.
Of" verifying the plain truth that "a
sound heart is the life of the flesh, but
envy the rottenness of the bones"
As general thing these people of
Tennessee seem to have that coed, easy
style of come day go day about them.
They frame their marriage certificates
and hang them on the wall, and those
who wish can hang their divorces in the
same way, without thinking of the COM
mands of their Heavenly Father. Seve-
raj couples Of the kind, from the elite
of this city, sat in one hall listening 20
Joe Munday's cutting sarcasm on that
subject
The ladies of every class and grade
use snuff privately, and very often pub.
licly, but the gentlemen are hard down
on snuff and mother hubbards.
In passing through North Carolina
and Tennessee we noticed that the 'whis.
ties on the engines were soft, mellow
and soothing, and was told they use the
steamboat whistle on passenger trains as
distinction from the sharp, shrill sound
of the numerous freights running day
and night, thereby breaking the Sabbath
day, with thousands of other instances
where business is carried on in the same
way.
This country is full of granite, marble,
slate and coal. The pike roads are made
of the most beautiful white granite rock
crushed-along the street car track it is
laid solid. The Custom House is built
of marble, and even to the floors are
solid marble.
The prospects are good now for two
new railroads, one running from here
to Cumberland Gap, and the other into
middle Virginia, opening up rich land,
full of ores and waters of every kind.
They have more consumption here
than in our State, caused by more expo.
sure during the cold winters. They
done seem to fear hard labor, neither
are they as fearful of disease as We are.
B. G. CLEMENT.